Bill Griffith Quotes

A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.
Bill Griffith

Rich, Full, Style

All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.
Bill Griffith

Life, Meat, Blur

Are we having fun yet?
Bill Griffith

But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life, where it would have been edited by various human beings before.
Bill Griffith

Life, Technology, Character

Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively.
Bill Griffith

Understand, Language, Comics

Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.
Bill Griffith

Everybody, Level, Loves

Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using a kid's body as a mouthpiece.
Bill Griffith

Nothing, Real, Everyone

Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.
Bill Griffith

I always thought of Levittown as a joke.
Bill Griffith

I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.
Bill Griffith

Beauty, Good, Yourself

I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.
Bill Griffith

Mother, Father, Career

I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.
Bill Griffith

Parents, Opposite

I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.
Bill Griffith

I just became one with my browser software.
Bill Griffith

Computers, Software, Browser

I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy.
Bill Griffith

I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if that's what you'd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other.
Bill Griffith

Art, School, Until

If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.
Bill Griffith

Life, Getting, Winds

Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.
Bill Griffith

Movies, Rock, America

Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.
Bill Griffith

Time, Character, Thought

Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.
Bill Griffith

Judge, Friends, Become

My first character was Mr. Toad.
Bill Griffith

Character, Toad, Mr

She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister.
Bill Griffith

Father, Problems, She

The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.
Bill Griffith

Down, Light, Culture

Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.
Bill Griffith

Reality, Attention, Days

Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
Bill Griffith

Art, Romantic, Vision

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Cartoonist

Born: January 20, 1944

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